Nasrin Sotoudeh has defended women arrested for protesting against Iran's headscarf laws.

After latch-ditch talks in Strasbourg, Mrs May calls on MPs to back her "improved" Brexit deal.

Women are on course to outnumber men in the Great Britain team for next year's Tokyo Olympic Games, says chef de mission Mark England.

Paul Manafort's jail sentence has sparked a debate over the treatment of white-collar crime in the US.

How migration has affected four generations of one Honduran family.

UFC star Conor McGregor is arrested in Miami for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as they tried to take pictures.

Journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes about an influential ruler's bid to promote farming.

Georgia is using art to cope with the pain of vulvodynia, which causes chronic pain in the vulva.

Chess player Babatunde Onakoya is using the game to educate children in Nigerian slum communities.

Mehdi Nemmouche gunned down four people in Brussels after returning from fighting for IS in Syria.

The 10-year-old boy called on Alan Joyce to take him "seriously" about starting an airline.

Kenya's electricity surplus could be capitalised on by a company reconditioning electric vehicles.

Employers can make unconscious - and unfair - judgements about interviewees within a few seconds.

The decision comes in light of two fatal accidents involving a Boeing Max 8 in less than five months.

US ambassador tells Germany to shun Huawei or face curbs in intelligence sharing, according to reports.

Hundreds celebrate on the streets of Algiers over ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's decision to drop his bid for a fifth term.

Seungri, whose band sold 140 million records, is accused of supplying prostitutes to business clients.

But the DUP and some leading Brexiteer Tories say they will vote against the PM's revised deal later.

Former Indian central bank governor Raghuram Rajan warns of the challenges facing global democracy.

Footage shows the dog chasing after a car after he was dumped in a street in Stoke-on-Trent.

Zinedine Zidane has been promised control over big decisions at Real Madrid and he has plenty of challenges ahead, writes Guillem Balague.